gally
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And Fleur, though le gally victorious, is less commanding in London society than before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here did God hold foorth his buckler, he shieldeth now this gally, and hath tried their faith to the vttermost.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Richard Hakluyt
This term I understood from the Bungan tribe to mean saltwater; water being kally, gally, or gallo.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Thomas Mitchell
When the auxiliaries gwîl and gally are used to form a passive, it is sometimes the auxiliary that takes the passive form.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner
Jack was handy in the cabin, and capital feller to carry soup from the gally, aft.
From Jack Tier by James Fenimore Cooper
What did the captain say when he paid you off B+" "He didn't say he was gallied," replied the sailor, with a knowing look, "but I'll bet he is.
From Marcy The Blockade Runner by George G. (George Gorgas) White
Getting away in good style, we had barely got the sails up, when something gallied the school.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen
All I'm gallied about is what the others'll think.
From Isle o' Dreams by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman
No mistake, Moore looked a bit gallied on it; an' he hum'd an' ha'd, an' threatened to brain Tregarvis if he laid a hand on the hide.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
He is to write to us first—God knows when!—for he said that if we didn’t hear from him for six months we were not to be gallied at all.’
From Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
